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iepts, it was the duty of each of the returning Offices to annex the indenture of raurn to the precept, and to return it to the sheriff, which the latter sent, together with the King's writ, to the clerk of the Crown. "This was the ester. blished • course, and it -was - one 'too thick the house could not depart from with safety to itself or to the rights of elee tors. On the present occasion, his course bad been aceetately enough followed as regarded one of the indentures. The she - . riff directed his precept to the Mayor of Tregorty, 'who had been appointed and sworn in by virtue of a writ , of toondamus. He would, however, pass by. this point, because' the Sheriff was in fact the person who had a right to select the proper returning officer, and to him he directed his precept. The Mayor having held the election, prepared his indenture of return, that Dr. Lttshington. and Mr. Brougham had been duly tkoted, and annexed this indenture to the precept of the Shealif, by whom that, and that alone, was sent to the Crown.office. Upon this statement alone, therefore, it appeared that a great error had been committed, Welt it was the duty a the House to . , ree*i but the difficulty, tif, indeed, it should be thought any -Maths , existed) arose ':roan this; that four aittys after tliO receipt of that indenture, another return wax made tei tilts Sheriff, stating that an dettion had been held s not under the precept directed to the Mayrr, but under the Writ throated by the King to, the She riff, awd this return was made by a person who profirseed himself to b.e the deputy of the Mayor of Tregony. It was impossible , tirn the Sheriff, who must be expected to exercise some discretion 'and judgment on it matter like this, could consider this to be a double return. It was clear that he never did so, that he ex pressly repudiated the second; for, if beta fighl ft to be a double return, he would have annexed both tittiros to his writ, which he had carefully avoided doing. Whalthit Sheriff had donaappeared to have been occasioned by whal had happened in the case of Hel von, where the returns had teen made precisely the same as in 'this case ; that is to say, one by virtue of the Sheriff's precept, and the other by vittue of the King's general writ. The She riff of that day tonsulted Sergeant Davy and Mr. Duller, Who advised hint to take a course which was rather safe than manly, and to send both the returns, the one annexed, and the other not annexed, to the Clerk of The 'Crown ; thus shifta ing the responsibility front himself 'to that officer. The Clerk Hof the Crown then understood his duty better than that officer "OW seemed to do, Tor he 'floated the second return as a piece -of waste parchment, Intel threw it aside. He said the course pur sued by the sheeiffafras rather safe than manly, because he thought it was the duty of all officers to take such responsibility' as fairly upon them ; but the last thing that a sheriff could justify ito ing, .wania be to introduce a new mode of making returns, be s iLUSet if any thing could be considered the return but that which *vas annexed to the sherif'f's precept, it would be to open a door to a practice of which no one could see the end. Suppose that this Parliament, which had been called at a time when there was no great differentce of opinion, bad been one in which questions of great importance had been to be discussed, what would have been more easy for any one who was disposed to play such a trick, than to keep my of the Right Hon. Gentlemen opposite out of their ;daces until March ? Many persons would be found who, for a mall RUM of money, would be induced to make such a return; and the only way of avoiding such practices, was by adhering to the known rule, viz.' that the' sheriff should annex to the writ the return made to his own precept, and that no other should be con sidered as a return at all. Nothing which was now said would touch the real merits of the return. The House could know nothing, and he (Mr Abercromby) knew nothing of the actual merits of this particular ease, and therefore, by acceding to the motion which he should now have the honour to subniit, the House would not compromise the intersts of the parties concerned in this election. On the authority of the Grenville Act, and on the grounds already stated, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman then moved, " That the second return for the Borough of TN.. gony be taken off the file." On the motion being put, Mr. C. W. WYNN expressed his surprise that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman should have concluded his !me t with such a motion, but for which he 'lllr. Wynn) would Ant have felt it necessary to trouble the :l',Onso on the prosent occasion. He owned he felt surprise at cite proposition of the Hon. and Learned Gentlemen), sec use it was not only against law, but against the establieleeL use of the House.---(Hear.)-,-Whtit Was the proposal of It& Hon. and Learned Gentleman ? « That the second return. for the Borough of Tregony be taken off the file." that r.itition were acceded to, he (Mr. Wynn) wished that the Huns and Learned Gentleman *mild introduce an ea r b y w hi c h °LI • retstrns should undergo a similar scrutiny.—(Hear.) —He tifr:Wynn) had not the slightest knowledge of either of the two Gentlemen who were interested n this re ii Ito object.. od to the motion, not front any feeling 1 either, but on the 4round of the extreme intortvenicitoo attending the pro.. ,position of tho Unnouralde , asul Learned Gentleman, and She mischievous precedent to which -it might give rise:— The Honourable Gentleman bad gone into a long detail of the merits of this partieuhr case ; but that eeielehee could not be eeceived unless it were given at the bar of that bungee where witnesses should undetgo a trek; examination by competent persons. By the election lawn committees may be appealed, to where no return was made by the Sherift In the case of the 'Westminster election in the year 1784, the Sheriff untde a double raven, in +consequence of which an unavoidable delay rimmed, and Mr. Fox, one of the candidates, petitioned against that Vent% and here was what wits stated to he no return at all. The whole House felt so strongly the ineonvenience and delay oompleined of, that they altewed from that time the right of presenting petitions where to return was meek. Without hear ing evidence at the Bar of the House, the merits of this return svelte' not be properly Or legally gone into. The House ought certainly, as far as possible, to discourage double returns, because of the two persons returned neither could act, and the place which they both sought to represent wasliterally without a representa tive so lun g es , t h e case was undecided.—.(hear, star.).--On the grounds which he stated, the Hight lion. Gentleman objected to the motion of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Aber cromby) ; and he implores" the House to pause, before it adopted by its sanction a precedent of a dangerous and mischievous nature. Mr. LOCK}tAItT said, that although he was of %Onion that the facts of the present case should he proved in evi dence before the House decided upon it, he could not bring him self to agree with the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Wynn), in the yam which he took of the motion befiire the House. Supposing a cue, in which persons claiming scot and lot claimed a right to vote for a Representative in Parliament, and Accordingly sig nified their claim to the Sheriff, who, however, did not annex the warn of The person they elected to the writ ; would not those electors remai n virtually without a representative, and the Mem bers who were returned, if petitioned against, would not they be excluded from sitting in Parliament? Mr. BROUGHAM said, that the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Wynn) seemed totally to mistake the views and opinions of his Hon. and Learned Friend (Mr. Abercromhy), when he inferred that the object of his motion was to take from the House a proper jurisdiction. The case of his Hon. and Lear ned Friend was this—A double return was made for the borough of Tregony. The book of the clerk of the Crown, now on the table of the House, proved that only one of the writs hail a return annexed to it; for the indenture of return was not annexed to the precept of the other return, and, consequently, that return mat he a nullity.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Brougham) referred to the opinion of Mr. Pitt, who, in a case in which a mayor neglected to sign a return, was clearly. of opinion that it should not be referred to a eou u nittee, because, upon the face of the transaction, no nitwit had been made. in that case the return said, "We, the mayor of so, and en," &c. and this return not. having the signature of the returning officer, was held, to be a nullity. But the ease of his Hon. and Learned Friend was tow rola different from this. The House was now considering a prima facie return. The question was this—whether or not the present was a double return. Ile (Mr. Brougham) entreated the House to consider the situation-In which it would place itself if a return were to be taken which h a d not been annexed acc or di n g t o law to the King's writ. For the expenee of a single sheet of parch ment he (Mr. Brougham) would undertake to peralyze the whole House by double returns, Not only two, but 200 returns might be,thus multiplied, All that would be necessary to effect this, would, be to annex the double returns to the writs, and the thing would he effected.—(Hear, hear. )---A mart had only to say,‘ , l • fef4 to make a return." ft __e makes it, and it i$ net only bind ing on the sheriff, but it is also binding-on the House, according tp the doctrine of the Bight Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Wynn),: who said that the House was hound by those returns.—(flear, hear.)— Thus, for -,three 200 returns, 400 Members might be uled entitled from Parliament, and not one of them w ould be his seat in the House until the respective cases were decided. I he sure, it might be thought elsewhere that some suchole a r n a tttg operation might he bene fi cially performed, and would rather he of ad vantage than othotiviae.—(l - fear, hear, and laughter. )--But warm thi s, he would ark the House, the fit and rational way by which atc - lit of this deseriptiou should be conducted ? Was, it possible, after 'tear ing the law of the ease so well and so clearly laid clown by Iris Hen. and Learned Friend, to object to the present motion? Arfr: ntr§KISSON thought that the question a the two return]; could not be decided without reference to en elec• tioo committee. Mr. BROUGHAM here made some remark, ani a convolution in an under tone was kept up across the table foi a few moments between ,bitte. Vita ltir. Huskisson, the substance of which we could not collect. Mr. 11USI1ISSON proceeded, and again obser ved, Oita though the second return in the case of the borough of kits * keard was on the face of it a nullity, 'the House. co‘tia `tint get rid of it without referring it to a Consitittee, 'and he (Mr. Hits. lciason) though legally returned, 'kept out of his seat for some months in conselttence of tibit decision. Mr. ABbRetOMBY observed, that what he had contundek Was, that this second return was a nullity, Inas- - twirdh tt was'not annexed to the King's writ, and only trans tniltted to the Sheriff four days after the first retntit. Mr. C. WYNN did . not mean VI 'give a decided opinion on the question, but ht; %ought it ought not to be deter mined without tttcattritTSif. Mr. H. WISS thought that all the House could feek% 'Was the document. If they confined thmselves strictly tn , 'the document, it was a single return.---(Heat heat) Mr. CARTER said that the pap& it& itnnexed tti the writ, was only sin indenture, 'not A kehrri.. Mr. D. GILBERT 4Settrea that the whole whetlist. tbal Ater. was a rettrn'or 'not. If net A Ittlrn, the officer :chYglit lAtit to have sent it.. Mr. 'Secretary CANNING was by no means cer twin what his opinion might be on mature deliberation. But if the House voted at once for the motion, they would decide tht question without the possibility of revision. All he asked twat time to inform himself on the subject. It was one to Which hi!) general principle could be made appliable. Viii WU.. tiun was, to propose that the Clerk 6f the 'C Goth eborild he called upon to explain the rnattet ; Mit he ion* saw that that would be considered a prejudging 'Of the question on the other side; the argument of The Honourable and Learned Gentleman being, that the Holise ought to decide on what was already before them. On the whole, he conceived that the beat course would be to adjourn the debate to another day, in order that Honourable Members might be better prepared to come to a decision upon the subject. Mr. ABERCROMBIE readily btiliettima in the Right Hon. Gentleman's ptoOttitioh. Mr. Secretary CANNING accordingly moyed, that the Debate should be adjourned to Wednesday, and that the Clerk of the Crown should attend on that day. After a few words from Mr. BROVGliAitf, Who agtt.td that this was the best course to pinine, Mr. C aiining's motion , was agreed to. CORN LAWS. The Order of the Day for the House to resolve itself into a Committee on the Corn Laws having been read, on the motion of Mr. Huskisson, the Order in Council of the lit of September, for permitting the importation of foreign corn, was referred to, the Committee, and,the Speaker left the Chair. • Mr. HUSKISSON said, that his Majesty's Mi nister. having, not only without the authority of the law, but in direct contravention of it, whited the issuing Of the Ordet in Council which had just been teferred to the conaideration of the Committee, and having advised his Majesty to call Parliament to- gether at the present unusual period of the ytar especially to .6- tain their sanction to the Act, it now became their duty to show the necessity under which hit Majesty's Ministers were induced to take the step they had taken. They owed it td theinseives to make the present proposition; they Owed uteo at a protection to those who had been ministerial in tits execution of the order—to those who, on the faith Of their assurances, had carried the order into effect. The dot of the Order in Council was the lit of Sep tember. At that period he had no doubt that most of the Honour able Members whom he was addressing were resident in the coun try, and had opportunities of ascertaining in their respective dis tricts the state of the harvest. Never had there been in his recol lection any harvest, the cOncilireht reports respecting which from every pan of the kingdom so fully agreed as to the character of it. He believed that he stated what every gentlenian present would confirm, when he said that the wheat stop, both in quantity end quality, was at least a fair atterage. The-returns respecting barley from mottle parts of the country were, that it was nearly an average crop, from others that it was not so. From the best in formation he could collect from persons the most intelligent on the subject, he had reason to believe that upon the whole , the barley crop did not amount to more than two thirds of an average crop. The crop of oats all Statements con curred in declaring to be limited ; alit! that of peas and beans still more se. Stich Was the deficiency in these last-mentioned crops, and fin completely was it ascertained, that late in July, and in the beginning of August, instead of the prices falling, Re was usually the commit that peviod of the year, they rose in every market in the kingdom. About the end of June, a tints at Which oats ought, to be nearly at their highest, the average price was Us. I i d. In the week ending August 4th they were 275. In the week ending August I lth they were 275. Bd. Those wore the only two weeks which could be included in the quarterly Report. of the averages, the return of which was 265. 6d. With this infer• oration from all parts of the country, his Majesty's Ministers de termined to wait the result of the remaining weeks in August be fore they took any measure on the subject. For the week ending the 18th of August, the average return was 27.. 2d. ; for the week ending the 25th of August 295. 4d. ; and for the week ending the Ist of Sept., 80s. So that at that period of the year, when it vas naturally to be expected that oats would be come cheaper, on the contrary they gradually became higher. After the first of September they were found to he rapidly rising. In some parts of the country they had even exceeded 40s, in price, and the parts to which he alluded, were those districts in which oatmeal formed the principal rustenanee of the inhabitants. It was to be recollected also, that the Administration had to consider that the failure in the oat crop was not peculiar to this country. They had received intelligence from the ports in the north of Europe, that in several other countries there had been so great a failure in the oat harvest, that there would probably arise a great demand from those countries upon the northern ports for a supply. Minis ters had also to consider the general state of the other productions necessary to the support of cattle during the ensuing winter. At the time of opening the ports there had been a long continuance of drought, which had affected the cattle in districts which depended on the inferior descriptions of food. It had, therefore, appeared necessary, that no opportunity should be lost to' procure a suffi ciency of food. Another object of more material alarm was the accounts received front Lancashire and Ireland that those districts were in a state of despondence and despair with re ference to the putatoe crop. If the drought had continued any longer, that despondence would not have proved ill-founded.— At the period to which he alluded, even in the richest pastures, the cattle were actually subsisting, as in the depth of winter, on fodder. No wan could possibly contend, that Ministers were improperly advised to open the ports for the introduc tion of the greeted possible quantity of oats, peas and beans, and all grains) barley excepted. If they had waited until ate law opened the ports, that was to say, until the 15th of October, the ports of the Baltic and the North of Europe would have been closed, and this country would have been exposed to the ensuing winter without the possibility of obtainhig any relief. There was no Minister that would have hesitated under each eir cumstances to advise His Majesty to take the earliest measures to procure the greatest i ipowsible supply of the articles so deficient. Us would beg leave to add, that had the measure which they, had adopted been simply a removal of the prohibition, they' would have required nothing more of Parliament than an Art of Indemnity ; but they bad thought themselves called upon to depart as little its possible from what they conceived to be the spirit and intention of the Corn Laws. Instead, therefore, of a simple cud absolute removal of the prohibition, they had made the importation conditional on certain terms. They bad required those, who introd uced the foreign corn to enter into engagement* to pay a certain rate of duty, according to the future approbation of Parliament,—(Hear, hear, hear.)-- With this arrangement the parties had complied. It was, therefore, necessary, that Parliament should express its sanc tion of this measure, in order to enable the Crown to put into execution, tke bonds which the parties had given ; and he thought it but consistent with public faith, that it should pro spectively continue the same duties.' The principles upon which the Ministers of the' Crown had acted in settling these duties, he would now explaiu. It was enacted by the Act of Parlia ment, that if the price of eats were above 28s. the duty was to be two shillings permanently, and two shillings for 'the first three months.. It, must be obvious, that the only intention for which the additional duty of two shillings had been imposed for the first three mouths was, to check the amount impanel, lest it should exceed the wants of the country. If they had taken a right esti mate of the harvest Of the year, such a check would have been deemed unnecessary. The whole oat crop bad hardly exceeded one half of an average crop. Instead, therefore, of checking the import of this species of corn, Ministers were called upon to give entouragement to tke largest importation. On the Bth Sept. the average price of the whole kingdom exceeded Ws. a quar ter; on the title August ' Ivuhaul'ex'" del 30s. 4d. in not less w than six di s 'etc If no foreign corn had been introduced into the country until 15th November, the time at which it might have bean imported by the law, it Was impossible to conceive ' that the price would net have one on rapidly increasing, until by the 15th November, the return would have been very considerably above the leg 4 importation price. rrom this i t f o ll owe d, that if Ministers led imposed a duty exceeding ttio s hilli ngs , the parties would have opposed the arrangement,' anti would have Prafelod Waiting the moo of the 15th of No- vember, when the aggregate returns would ,haVe been above 305., which would bay enaliled to take their oats out under a merely atieGai clutrof 4d, a quarter. About 600,000 ep.uktat had been imported since the Order ; and there were at the present moment about 150,000 quarters on which the parties did not choose to pay the duty of two shillings, preferring to take the chance of taking them out on the kith of NoYektiber. Their calculation had been disappointed; Mit the market at the present rittpnePti lie ammo akidatioti *ould individuals tvithlrelipec i t to the next quarterly average of 15th of V'ebtliErY. ''he return .of the 13 or 14 counties which would constitute the average for England, gave the price considerably above 30s. The counties in which the price did exceed 305., were Durham, Northumberland, Lancashire t CheslAre, plotteester, Cornwall, and several othqrs k For retit'eashire; the . last return was very nearlzthirty-fillt itildnge. Under thole ciituinstances he felt quite conviiked he had made, ontgroUnd enough to justify tfte'APeelatien of receiving the approbation of,Rarliament; both *ith.reipect to the iMPertatlon, and to the amount of the 'duties they had imposed. He should p`rOpeue to tntitinUe the duties they had imposed. He propose to continue the duties at the preeent low amount until the 15th February, when the price was above 30s. Wheat was at 7lls, 6d. on the 15th, AugUet, and if it had risen to 90s. on the S a l o f . September, would Ministers have been justified in deferring to the 15th November the means of introducing a foreign should now con elude by Mewing. thefirSt Res'olutlin t , to indemnify all those Mid nbitted and eXectited the Cider in toiineil of the lit Sept., 1826; for Alloiviiig the inOrtatidit bf lrbteigh ban; Mill the secoild lteeoldtioii, for rendering legal and continuing the rate of Import Duty imposed by the said . Orders. Upon the Resolutions being put from the Chair, Sir E. KNATCHBULL said, that his concur• renee in the present resolutions was not to be considered as any deviation from his former opinions upon the Corn Laws. He thought the country very much indebted to the Bight llpti. Gen= Henan Huskisson) fOr iherislitea he had advised upon the sullied'. tie diade NS observation the more strongly, be isthre it had been asserted most unjustly, that those immediately connected with the landed igtereSt had , motiVes different from the rest of the community. It was not uhusual with pet-stink ehgaged in trade to remunerate thennielves flit previous losses by future high prices; but it ought to be remembered, that the agricultu rists had no such opportunity. The agriculturists bad been as depressed as any class in the kingdom, without exception, and no good could result from exciting jealousy between them and the ma nufacturers. He did not think this a proper opportunity of en tering upon the question of the Corn Laws, and he was glad that the Ministers bad confined themselves to - the immediate question before the House. Mr. WHITMORE, without entering upon the treat question to which the subject before the House bore re ference, could not but feel it his duty to take the present opportu nity to point out, what a vague law it was under which the corn trade was regulated, when this was the third time of infringing it in three years. They had before met to pass au Act of Indemnity for violating this law. The year before last they had admitted ,corn in bond ; last year they pursued the same course, giving the Government the power to admit a large quantity ; and now they were again assembled to pass an act of justice for admitting more grain, in opposition to the law. He put it to the House,whether such a law should be allowed any longer to disgrace the Statute Book. He considered it injurious to have any recrimination be tween the different parties interested in a measure so deeplyaffect ing the prosperity of the whole country. Colonel WOOD regretted that the Hon. Member who had just sat down had not followed the example of those who had preceded him, by avoiding all mention of the general question of the Corn Laws. Before the Hon. Member passed his opinions so freely upon the Corn Laws, it behoved him to learn what those laws really were. In a publication put forth by the lion. Mem ber, it was asserted that the principle of the Corn Laws, passed in 1815, was to put an end to all commercial intercourse between Great Britain and the Continent. It was further asserted that the trade, after passing the law, was not to be the rule, but the exception to the rule, and that the object of the law was to screw up prices to an unnatural elevation,. So far front the trade in corn having been the rule before the passing of the law of 1815, the prior law was, that when the average price was below 655., the import duty should be 25e.....-when above, only half-a-crown.— The Hon. Member would find, that after 1815, all corn might be imported duty free, on being warehoused, and which could not have been done before the passing of that Act. This sys tem had been introduced by Mr. George Rose, when the Northern ports were in the hands of the enemy, in , order to make England a gnat depot of foreign corn. The public press bad persevered in running down the Corn Laws, and in arguing that the object of the laws was to screw up rite% This was false, for the object of the law was, to give England the advantage of the market as long as she produced enough for her own coniumption, and when she did not do so, to let her have an ample supply ready at hand. The consequence has been that instead of Sle. the previous price, corn for the last year has been only at 61s. The price of bread could not be com plained of at present. He thought the Ministers had done right in opening the ports to oats, and he wished that they would at once dispose of the whole question of the Corn Laws, instead of deferring it. Mr. WARBURTON expressed a hope that the intimation thrown out by the Right Honourable the Secretary of State would be rigidly adhered to. Colonel TPILRENS said, that the obser%%ations which had fallen from au Honourable Baronet who had spoken before him, induced him to say a few words upon this question. It had been said by some Gentleman in some Assembly, no matter where—that the manufacturers and traders were anxious to make themselves Noblemen and Gentlemen by reducing the Nobles and Landed Gentry of the country to the situation of beggars. For himself, he felt that the whole intertats of the country were so intimately connected, that one could not continue at the expence of the other. He was willing that land should be considered as the barometer of national opulence, but he did not wish to second any effort which would have the effect of forcing the mercury to an unnatural height, as it must have the effect of subjecting it to an equally unnatural depression. If the landholders were to pur sue such a course, they would drive capital out of the country, and thus they would become desolate amidst the waste which they themselves had created. But whilst he said this he felt that it would be unwise in the people to pull down landed property ; if they did so, their conduct would be of a piece with the act of him who should pull down a building though certain of perishing him self under the ruins. _ _ Mi.. WESTERN said a few words in a low tone. We understood the Hon. Member to declare, that Ministers were justified in the course they bad pursued ; and that seeing the temper and feelidg of the House, he would not at present enter into the general question of the Corn Laws. After a few words from Mr. E. WODEHOUSE, who concurred with Ministers in the course they had adopted, Mr. CALCRAFT said he felt called upon to ex press his concurrence also in the course which his Majesty's Go vernment had thought it right to adopt ; indeed, he thought that they could not, under the circumstances, have acted otherwise.. He was glad to perceive that they were all of one mind as to-the necessity of allaying' the animosity which appeared to exiiit be tween the different interests of the country, and, with this feeling, he should reserve his opinions until the general question of the Corn Laws came fairly under discussion. After a few words from Mr. BENETT (of Wilt shire), and Mr. LEYCESTER, both of whom were inaudible, Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN observed, that all the interests of the country were inseparably connected, and that no one branch could permanently exist at the expense of another. He bad no fault to find with the course pursued by Ministers, hut it was not his intention to compliment them upon it, as he con ceived that they had already received compliments enough to nauseate thent. Tv i Hear, h ear .) Mr. HU . E wish e d to ask a question upo n a point which it appeared did not occur to any of the Gentlemen who hadspoken-heforebi m . E very G en tl e m an a pp eare d to regret that Ministers nad thought fit to postpone that important questio n —the discussion of the Corn Laws---but no one thought of in quiring the reason of .such p os tp o nement. If -Minister' were in ' possession of inforination which induced them to poitpone the subject for the present, it war their duty to sayso, and thus set the country at rest. M uc h h ad been sa id o f th e a g r i cu l tural in terests, but no m ent i on .was made of the interests of th e peop l e -(nllil diaadisapprobation, Prevented. te Hon. Mem her from going any farth er .) )—Nor wets' the broad and general he i mea7 ba tt t o i° a e of, the questio Th 13 - coughi ng , viewaa n t argw eh other symptoms of The Resolution Was then put and carried. On the second Resolution being put, Mr. HUSKISSON (iii a low tone) said he was t ip:loos to explain a matter alluded to by an lion. Member in the course of the evening, It wes t rue that the price of grain was at 3Os. Id. before the lit of September, _ bat on th e t wo preced i ng weeks it bail been at 28 s. and 29r. This would have warranted the laying on of a fixed d uty o f 2 8 . or of imposing a heavier but mere temporary i - mimed; but they prelirred adopting the former courect until 49 days after the meeting of Parliament, in order that that Assembly might act as seemed moskadvi ss hi s , - The Resolution confirming the Orders iu Council was then agreed to; the House resumed, and the Report *a* drdeted fo be be received on Monday next. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. It was Ordered that the House s on its risings should adjourn to Monday it: CHAIRMAI bF COMMITTEES OF WAYS AND MEANS: On, tl t r - .. qu' f est t on ,piat the House should resolie itself into iStS t~cl ass the Howse from under the Gallery, but 'the noise in the Hofise retiderid 111$ Hon. Gentleman inaudible at ,inter Vale, . He had, he said, had ,the honour of filling the situation of Chairman of Committees . of Wei); and Mews in that Hquse for nearly the whole of two ParliattiEhts, all Atli* that time hi had never done anything unworthy of the rank and station which he filled In &del as a Gentleman or of the character and dignity of that House.-- He had, notiYithetanding, been assailed by public and private calumny; he had ljeefi accused, most foully and falsely ac... Csiscd, of acts froni Which disk Oeritlimaii irduld thn with in dignation. Souse of these he had personally febutted: As to others, those who had the best right to judge, and were, at thd same, time, the. Most competent judges of his conduct, had honourably admitted. hlin..-(Cries of Hear, hear, hear.)—Not withstanding this; however be hail been again assailed ; but, for the most patt, by anonymous writers, tvlsose statements he opposed himself to, and, throisghont, he sought--he courted the most Minute, the most public inquiry into his Conduct.— (Hear, hear.)—That inqiiiry lie *as still desirous to have insti tuted ; and notwithstanding hie cdrisciousitese of hie innocence, he should, until it was satisfactorily terminated, jefrain Miro Offering himself as a candidate for the situation in that House which he had hitherto filled.—(Hear, hear, hear.)—He repeated that he was most anxious for that inquiry; and he pledged himself to the Non. Alderman that he should most satisfactorily refute the charges alleged against him. All that he had to say in addition waA, that he was "not Guilty;" he bowed to the storm that raged around hisn...but fair weather Would return, and then he should be afforded an opportunity of vindicating his honour and character to the satisfaction both of that House and of the country at large. He had on many previous occasions received the indul gence pf the House—all that he now sought was its justice.— (Criei of hear, hear, hear.) Mr. Secretary CANNING was sure that there existed but one sentiment in that House as to the statement made by the Hon. Member, and the course which he bad pursued—a course equally honourable to himself, and to the character and dignity of the House of Commons, as well as satisfactory to those whose duty it was to recommend persons to fill the situa tion which the Hon. Member hail for the present declined.— (Hear, hear, hear.)—After what had fallen from the Hon. Mem ber, he (Mr. Canning), would not propose him for the present as the Chairman of Committees; but when—which he did not doubt—the Hon. Gentleman should have freed him self from every moral taint, then the House would, he was sure, feel sorry to exclude hini from that office which he had hitherto filled with such credit to, himself and such advantage to the public business .--( Near, hear, hear.)— He (Mr. Canning) trusted that the Worthy Alderman (Waith man), who had menaced the Honourable Member (not impro perly, certainly), would afford him the earliest and fullest oppor tunity of vindicating himself from the charges alleged against him. In the meantime, be should, at a fitting opportusity, pro pose as their Chairman of Committees of Ways and Means, a Gen tleman long acquainted with the proceedings of the House; and whe, though the situation was one of honest ambition to any man, would feel more truly happy at vacating the Chair in favour of the Honourable Gentleman, than in retaining it.—(Hear !) Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said that he felt himself placed in a most awkward situation; he wished it, however, to be most distinctly understood, that he was not the accuser of the Honourable Member, nor had he preferred any charge whatever against him. In the transaction to which he alluded, the Ho nourable Member declared that he was totally innocent of it, and he (Mr. Waithman) gave him full credit for the assertion ; buthe had seen so much of these Companies, and had heard so much of some persons connected with them, that if the Speaker had been so spoken of, he should object even to him, when pro posed to his present high and honourable office. He would not have said a single word of the 'Honourable Member (Mr. Brogden), if he had not seen him so peculiarly placed.— It might, perhaps, he asked, why he should put himself forward upon this occasion? His answer was, that having, in 1824, filled the high and responsible office of Chief Magistrate of the City of London, he had been repeatedly solicited to lend his name to Com panies and Bubbles innumerable, and be was sure that had he done so, he might have put thousands into his pocket. He then saw the views of the parties, and Wes determined to enter his pro test against their proceedings, and those eostneeted with them, With respect to the Honourable Member (Mr. Brogden), be had had various mercantile transactions with him, and in no instance had any circumstance arisen which could give rise to anything like a hostile feeling on his (Mr. W.'s) part. If the Honourable Member alluded to should clear himself of the imputations at pre sent against him, no one would be more ready than himself (Mr. W.) to vote him into that office in the House which be had hi therto so creditably filled. The Speaker then left the Chair, Sir ALEXANDER GRANT was appointed as Chairman of Conimittees of Ways and Means. The Hon. Mem ber, after thanking the Right Hon. the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, proceeded to state, that be should feel pride and pleasure at vacating that seat, to which he had been but temporarily called, in &your of the Hon. Member who had so long and so worthily filled it.-7(Applause.) A ResolUtiO; was then proposed, That a Supply he granted to his Majesty, which, having been carried, the House resumed. The Report was then brought up, and ordered to be received on Monday next. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at about Twenty Minutes after Eight. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Nov. 25.—Thursday last the following De green were conferred : MASTERS or ARTS. Rev. Henry Haddon Green, Worcester. Rev.,Anthony Berwick Lechmere, Christ Church. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Henry Denny, Worcester. Edward Powlett Blunt, Scholar of Corpus. Edmund Barker Ray, William Blundell, Brasenose. Robert Marriott Caldecott, John Day, Exeter. John Byron, Thomas Collett, Trinity. Henry Hodgkinson Bobart, Christ Chorelt. Thomas Griffiths, Jesus. William Capel, Postmaster of Merton. William Cprling, Morgan Davies, Wadham. John Coulter Dowling, William Thomas Clarke, Queen s. , Christopher Franci s G o d mon d, Thomas Clarke, Pembroke. RCCLICAIASTICAL PRXTERAtENTS. The Rev. James Hitching., M.A. of Christ Church, has been presented, by the Ri g ht H on . L or d B ray b rooke , to t h e Vi carage o f resented, in the county of Berke, void by the decease of the Rev. Mr. Nind. The Rev. Charl es Willi am H ug h es, P erpetua l C u rate of Lacey Green Chapel, i n th e county o f Bucks, has been appointed Do .. mestic Chaplain to hi s G race th e D u k e o f Beaufort. THE MARKETS. COVENT-GARDEN M. There was a good supply at trade was a little renovated, but si berts, and Grapes, were consider night ; in prices of other things :ARKET.--(Tni DAY.) this morning's market, and the till dull. Lettums, Radishes, ably higher than on this day ten no alteration. • 5. d. to s, Potatoes (per cwt.) 3 0 0 0 Cabbaxes (12 beads)... 0 8 1 6 Ditto Red Savoys 0 9 a 1 0 0 Horse Radish (bundle) 2 0 ; 0 11rocoli 0 , Cel er y o 9 1 0 Turnips s 1 5 1 6 Cant* (12 bunches) • °6 ) o 6 Coleworts or Greens Leeks pelisdnisjaiettu ( h a l t ece 5 h ( a 541175 ?.•• • IA 24 s d to s. d P e ars (halt.siere) 2 6 7 0 A p plea, Common 1 6 2 Ditto, ;; Quinces &nal! Onions Oranges (100) ... . Lemons ..... 0 18 0 _ English Walnuts.: 1 0 I 0 SpanisliCheanuts(peck) 9 0 6 0 „ French ditto French Walnuts 2 6 41, Spanish Harlenuts Filberts (121b5.)... Grapes 6 0 10 0 HAY MARKET (At per Load c ST. JA 410 5 Uplan d Ditto ....... . .... 10 ft e.graa a Hay ... ....... 410 610 umands t ea dow flay C 1 10 to 4 10 , jaw Meado w Hay •.... 4 5 5 $ Now Meadow good, and trade rather 1 Agnid ; price* as on Monday. Ea oto 4 0 Clover Hay generally £4 10 to 0 6 SMITHFIELD. Rye-grass flay ..... . ....4 0 5 5 oit *raw 5 5 Do. extraordinary fine 0 0 610 1 1 10 it:Pewlvvl4:dndepal4ditOetdoriwitylia. Y ... 4 3 15 5 0 Wheat Ditto llO 1 13 Supply moderately rad, trade; little alive, and priest as last quoted, I .—(Tnis DAY. ) )f 3(i Trusses.) AIES'S, Clover Bay i4 sto 5 0 Oat Straw 1 10 l2 Wheat Ditto ll2 1 12 PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. DOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF MOTIONS AND ORDERS OF THE DAY WHICH NOW STAND ON THE ORDER BOOK FOE THE ENSUING WF.EK. 'Meriden Nov. 27. ORDERS Or THE DAY. i r Corn ,Importation Acts-wißeport thereupon 2. Supply—Report on Motion for Supply. Tuesday, Nov. 29. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 1. Mr. Litrletrin.:-"Adentment of Select Committee of Appeal on Pri vate Bills. 2. Mr. Alexander Dawson—'l'o shove for certain Returns respecting the Borough of Athlone. Wednesday, NoY. 29, • . ORDER OF THE 'DAY. Tregopy Borongh Election—Adjourned Debate thereupon; Deputy Clerk of the Crown to attend. NOTICE tIF MOTION AFTER THE HOLIDAYS. Mr. Spring Rice—Repeal of the Duty on Coals imported into Ireland• PRICES OF STOCKS Till Bank Stock 202% 3 per Cent 4 Red 92 %ti• 3 per Cent. Cons. • • ' 54 Ditto y per Cent. Red. 4 per Cent. New 98% Ditto, 1826 96% 7 1 4 Bank Lobe An 19% 7-16 India Stock Ditto Bondiu..i • • 38 36 pm. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. South Sea .............. • Old Annuli ....... New Ditto .. ... ....... . . '— Ex. Bills, il„ . 0110 2d. ........ ISptc• Ditto SOO 2d. ...... 20 19 pm. Ditto Small ...... 24.. ..... 19 23 pin• Ditto Commercial ........... ..... Bank for Opening .................. India Mr Account. ....... ........ Cons. for Account . ....834%)6 PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bonds,ti per cent. Rraztlian Bonds Bueiios Ayres Bonds. Chilion Bonds, 6 per ...ct. Colombian Bonds • Ditto, 1824 41% 2 Danish 3 persent. ..... 2S Greek Bonds it. so Ditto, 1826 Whi 20 % !i 44 Guatiniala Mexican Bonds Do. 1820 .3174 8 rNDS AT ONE 0 CLOCK. 14.1eapoliGin, 182 ........ ...... Peruvian Bonds ............. Portuguese Bonds ..................79)4 Prussian, 5 per cent. ........ Ditto, New. ..................... R us sian, New, s p. C. ........ Sp a nish, 1921 ................... 13tiVi 1,86X3 P.% Frenc- h Reines, hp. loot. - Exchange 2st, 5Ge. per cent.........:: —l. ..........-4. —v.. Paid. 40 Anglo Mexican Mining Celpaly X7S 11) 15 PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE 0 CLACK. Columbian Mining Coltman Mexican Mining Company lB 1 Pasco Peruvian Mining Company l5 17 1614 17 United Mexican Mining Company...« Share. i TOCKS, NOV. 22. St. Patrick Incur. (Pc •. Royal Irish Ditt o ..... National Ditto ............ ........ ' Patriotic Ditto. ..................... Hibernian Rank ................... Provincial Ditto ............... Royal Irish Mine .................. Imperial Mine ..................... aing Co. of I ......... Commercial Building' ............ NOE YESTERDAY. ice ............. MaltaClVnn h4l• 1• 3il Naples Palermo. ................. per oz. 114 Lisbon Oporto .............. .. 48 Rio Janeiro 4 44 % 1 Bahia ... . ......... Buenos Ayres ........... 4B Dublin, 21 days' sight ....••••• Cork BULLION, PER OZ• d i• Portugal Gold, in coin 0 ,v„ 3 " Foreign Gold, in hirs New Doubloons 3 New Dollars 4 A PI Silver, in bars, standard 0 " I L Arrive d. B o. 0 0 G n u: l r a n: . ........... 8 : . amburgh .. . ........ O Jamaica ........ ..... 0 O reward Islands ... O Lisbon ........... O Malta ... . ... 0 1 Waterfo rd......"... PRICE OF IRISH Bank Stock Gov. Stock, 3% per cent.... 8811 ; Ditto, New 4 per Cent. 97 7 i 5i Gov. Deb. 3% per cent ...... Consols, 3 per cent. Royal Canal, Stock Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent. 2l Ballast Office Deb. 4 per cent. 21%. COURSE OF McCHA Amsterdam C.F. 12 Ditto, at sight ,... 12 1 Rotterdam 2U. 12 5 Antwerp l2 S Hamburgh 23„ U. 37 6 Altona U. 2% 37 7 . . . Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto 2 U. 25 85 Bordeaux 25 85 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 1533 Petersburgh, rbie . 3 Us. 9 S Vienna, effective ti 2 M. 10 16 Trieste do. Madrid Cadiz 34 Bilboa B a rcelona l3k Seville Gibraltar Arrived. Due. O America 0 O Brazil 0 O Buenos Ayres O Donaghadee 0 I Dublin O Flanders 0 0 France O Gottenburgh 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIRGR To4lollll°l Morning 58 minutes after 10. I Evening XI minu tes site 1,1. 4utt. LONDON; Nov. 25 , We. SATURDAY EVENLItia. of which he :had given notice :-Ist, ---------- Mr. Ii -VSKIssoN moved, last night, in a COMMILIv. of the whole House on the Corn Laws, the Resolutions ing all those who had a dvised and executed the Order in Council of the let September, 1826, for allowing the Importation of Foreign Corn ; and 2d, For ren dering I -egal, and continuing the rate of duty, asOeil as operation of the Order in Council, till the 15th of February. For indemnify the circumstances which had induced his Majestys The Right Honourable -Gentleman's statement of Ministers t o t a k e upon themselves the responsibility. of is su i ng this Order in Council, was so clear, and_ carried w ith it such perfect proofs of the necessity ot the measure which had been adopted, and of the co l ; tinuance of it until the general question shall be eettle°' that no opposition was made to the Resolutions, but, On the contrary, an unanimous declaration was nialif b Y Members of all parties of approval of the,proceed.ing. A Bill therefore, founded on these Resolutions, soli 1 e inunediately introduce d. Although it was W 1 exclude from this discussion any observations car d general subject of the Corti Laws, e nough es ts of from several Members to show what the sentiu len . le the House are on this question, and a'.o have l i tt le doubt that when it is brought .forward, a ° °131 ,, e .0 alteration of the whole system of the Corn , 1/ 0 " 1 " be carried with much less opposition than had been anticipated. Conviction dale necessity Of an alters' tion will come home to the minds of all, and the iles v terested feelings of great Landholders in both Vousto continued to the 15th February only, will give way to their sense of duty is Legislators, whom the interests of all are entrusted• be are to It is obvious, as the present regulations , • o n • the contemplate that the general question will be 61° Y. settled prior to that date. wit that Minisujir' Our Readers will o b ser ve by o ur Parlir gh c o l gre ' e. . ori s ti:t: Report, that th e return .........--_ discussion :--f mr. Motion relative to the illegality of the s econd t h e ft : l, ', for the Borough of Tregony, by which Mesas.° o f LOP and GORDON were returned to the Ho use st, Commons as Members for that Borough, w as , a. poned on the Motion of Mr. CANNING, until ‘' i ' veS nesclay next, to enable Members to inform theres e- c , fully of the circumstances of the case, and of do , r i l he tics of the House under such circumstances' t Clerk of the Crown is to attend the House on that day. t m h aeMn whole or i* . the ß n °course°i4 N' Committeeof the of propriety declined offering himself as a Candidate for re been cast, upon it in appointment until he had had an opportunity of lit ii- d certain proceedings eating his character from those imputations whic" 1 7 who has filled the situation of Chili: t W wo ay i s ast eu p d ar le s a m n e s si d ts u , r panics. The Honourable Member with great fee luig protested his innocence of the charges winch had li ce .", made against him, and pledged himself to establish 1"_. of respect to f t o t bletisjocionnt nseteotieol,nc-or- • . innocence, and prove that his honour and charade'